parboil, v.
(ˈpɑːˌbɔɪl)
Forms: α. 5 parbuille, -boylyn, 5–7 -boyl(e, (7 erron. part-boil), 6– parboil. β. 5 perbuille, 6–7 -boyl(e, -boile.
[a. OF. parboill-ir, parbouillir, parbouyllyr (Godef.) (pourbouiller Cotgr.):—late L. perbullire (Theod. Prisc.) to boil thoroughly, f. per through, thoroughly + bullīre to bubble, boil. The prefix has been erron. identified with part, whence sense 2.]
† 1. trans. To boil thoroughly. Obs.
| c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 6 Take fayre caboges..parboyle hem in fayre water, an þanne presse hem on a fayre bord. c 1450 Douce MS. 55, xxx. lf. 19 Lete parbuille hem ryȝth well. 1565 Stapleton tr. Bede's Hist. Ch. Eng. 122 It might all be perboyled out by the fire of long tribulation. 1611 Cotgr., Pourbouiller, to parboile throughly. a 1655 Sir T. T. de Mayerne Archimagirus v. (1658) 2 Take the Hare and par-boyl him, then take all the flesh from the bone. |
2. To boil partially, half boil.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 382/1 Parboylyn mete, semibullio, parbullio. 1530 Palsgr. 652/1 It muste be parboyled first and than baken: il le fault parbouyllyr premier et puis le mettre cuyr au four. 1555 Eden Decades 183 Flesshe can not bee preserued..excepte it be rosted, sodden or perboylde. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage viii. iii. 623 Sometimes they will perboile their meate a little. 1670 Blount Glossogr. (ed. 3), Part-boil, to boil in part not fully. 1769 Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 151 Parboil a calf's-head, when cold cut it in pieces. 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xvii. (1856) 130 Rub with soda; wash out the soap thus freely made; parboil and pickle. |
3. In figurative or hyperbolical use (from 1 or 2); usually in reference to overheating.
| 1566 Drant Horace, Sat. ix. E iij b, My harte in choller perboylde was. 1598 B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. iv. i, They should haue beene perboyl'd, and bak'd too, euery mothers sonne. 1642 Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 74 When hee sees the same Sun which only cherisheth and gently warmes his Countrey men, halfe parboyle and tanne other people. 1682 N. O. Boileau's Lutrin iv. 12 He..parboil'd in his mellow Sweat lay frying. 1807 W. Irving Salmag. viii. On Style, Being squeezed, and smothered, and parboiled at nightly balls. 1879 H. George Progr. & Pov. v. ii. (1881) 263 To get four dollars a day for parboiling themselves two thousand feet underground. |
Hence
parboiled (
ˈpɑːˌbɔɪld)
ppl. a.,
† thoroughly boiled (
obs.); partly boiled, half-boiled; also
fig.; hence
parboiledness;
ˈparboiling vbl. n. and ppl. a.| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 382/1 *Parboylyd, parbullitus. 1559 Mirr. Mag., Jack Cade xxi. 5 Than were on poales my parboylde quarters pight. c 1644 Cleveland Mixt Assembly Wks. (1687) 33 Strange Scarlet Doctors these; they'll pass in Story For Sinners half refin'd in Purgatory; Or parboyl'd Lobsters. 1844 Tupper Twins xxiv. 180 My fellow passengers..were lying about as weak as parboiled eels. |
| 1862 Temple Bar Mag. VI. 154 Sweltering heat and *parboiledness seem to be the fashion. |
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 382/1 *Parboylynge, parbullicio. a 1560 R. Hall Life Bp. Fisher (1655) 211 The parboyling in hot water. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl., Parboiling, in pharmacy, etc. a term applied to fruits, herbs, etc. which are boiled a little while, to draw out the first juices. |
| c 1450 Two Cookery-bks. 84 Take faire parcelly, and parboyle hit in a potte, & *parboylingge broþe. |